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Author Dixon, Lloyd S.

Title Hedge funds and systemic risk / Lloyd Dixon, Noreen Clancy, Krishna B. Kumar.

Imprint Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 115 pages) : color illustrations.
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Series Rand Corporation monograph series
Rand Corporation monograph series.
Note "RAND Corporation."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-115).
Contents Introduction -- Background on the hedge fund industry -- The collapse of long-term capital management -- Hedge funds and the financial crisis of 2007-2008 -- Potential hedge fund threats to financial stability and reforms to address them -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Regulatory reforms that address potential systemic risks posed by hedge funds.
Summary "Hedge funds are a dynamic part of the global financial system. Their managers engage in innovative investment strategies that can improve the performance of financial markets and facilitate the flow of capital from savers to users. Although hedge funds play a useful role in the financial system, there is concern that they can contribute to financial instability. The collapse of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) in 1998 raised awareness that hedge funds could be a source of risk to the entire financial system. Hedge funds also invested heavily in many of the financial instruments at the heart of the financial crisis of 2007-2008, and it is appropriate to ask whether they contributed to the crisis. This report explores the extent to which hedge funds create or contribute to systemic risk (that is, the risk of a major and rapid disruption in one or more of the core functions of the financial system caused by the initial failure of one or more financial firms or a segment of the financial system) and the role hedge funds played in the financial crisis, the consequences of the 1998 failure of LTCM, and whether and how the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 addresses the potential systemic risks posed by hedge funds."--Page 4 of cover.
Funding The research described in this report was supported by a contribution by Christopher D. Petitt, principal of Blue Haystack, a financial research and consulting firm, and by the RAND Center for Corporate Ethics and Governance.
Note Print version record.
Language English.
Subject Hedge funds -- United States.
Financial risk -- United States.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Financial crises -- United States.
Risk management -- Government policy -- United States.
Financial institutions -- United States -- Management.
Fonds spéculatifs -- États-Unis.
Risque financier -- États-Unis.
Crise financière mondiale, 2008-2009.
Gestion du risque -- Politique gouvernementale -- États-Unis.
Institutions financières -- États-Unis -- Gestion.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Investments & Securities -- Mutual Funds.
Financial crises
Financial institutions -- Management
Financial risk
Hedge funds
Risk management -- Government policy
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Finance.
Business & Economics.
Investment & Speculation.
Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBbr3T8xBMDbJhDhGmm (OCoLC)fst01755654
Chronological Term 2008-2009
Added Author Clancy, Noreen.
Kumar, Krishna B.
RAND Center for Corporate Ethics and Governance.
Rand Corporation.
Other Form: Dixon, Lloyd S. Hedge funds and systemic risk. Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, 2012 9780833076847 (DLC) 2012948078 (OCoLC)809834660
ISBN 9780833077868 (electronic bk.)
0833077864 (electronic bk.)
9780833077882
0833077880
9780833076847 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0833076841 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Report No. RAND/MG-1236-CCEG
Standard No. AU@ 000051567575
AU@ 000052905934
CHBIS 010618776
DEBBG BV042961797
DEBBG BV044177751
DEBSZ 397626568
DEBSZ 423747983
GBVCP 1008657794
NZ1 15025549
AU@ 000069984305

 
    
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